Tyler Green Modern Art Notes

Weekend roundup

On Saturday night: No. 11 Missouri defeated No. 1 Oklahoma in arguably the biggest win in school history, the San Francisco Giants advanced to the World Series and the Washington Capitals won a weird, wild one in overtime at home. That’s pretty much all that matters. I can’t top that, but there’s still good stuff here…

When it came to re-defining what painting could be in the mid-to-late 20thC, New York had Elizabeth Murray and California had Kim MacConnel. Neither coast has ever been much interested in the other’s artist: SFMOMA doesn’t have a Murray and while you never can tell with MoMA’s online collection tool, I don’t think it has a MacConnel. Christopher Knight reviews a MacConnel retrospective at MCASD.

I don’t understand why Roberta Smith is giving the Metropolitan Museum of Art so much credit for the John Baldessari retrospective when the museum is no more than a stop on the tour. The show was organized by LACMA and the Tate Modern.